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    the next . But the liberal and truly Christian disposition which prompts a man of fortune to live in a plain and simple manner , hospitably , but without parade , and dispose of the excess of income which this gives him , in forwarding the spiritual interests , and relieving the daily necessities of his fellow-creatures , must place him in the path of felicity , so far a 9 it is attainable here , and in the certain road to perfect and neverending bliss hereafter . Where good seed falls on good ground , where power is put into the hands of those who are disposed to make a proper use of it , we are told

    by our Lord that in different instances the increase will be widely different . Some will bring forth thirty , some sixtyf and some a hundred fold ! From those who profess a purer , a more rational , sublime and animating system of faith , than the rest of their

    fellow-christians , more of the living fruits of good works may be expected , and will certainly be required ; and G that I could excite in the boscmi 3 of Unitarians , a glorious ambition to be chief and foremost in the race of benevolence , that most prominent feature of the true Christian character !

    that " forgetting those things which are behind / ' ( the follies and vanities in which many have hitherto wasted much of their time and wealth , ) they would " reach forth unto those things which are before , " and " press forward towards the mark , for the high calling of God in Jesus Christ M . H .

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    Correspondent , ; that it arises from duplicity , cannot easily be reconciled with candour . Men of warm feelinga are apt to be betrayed , even in a good cause , into an intemperance which is too much akin to intolerance .

    Your Halifax Correspondent , [ p . 380 , ] is more candid . He disclaims the charge of duplicity ; but still he is inclined to believe that a good deal of mischief is done by adhering to a

    term which , according to him , is , to say the least , unmeaning and totally misapplied . Now , as to the term being unmeaning , it certainly is well understood to describe a considerable

    body of Dissenters in this country ; the descendants of those worthy confessors who were expelled from the Church in 1662 , by the Act of Uniformity , Nor is it , 1 think , at present entirely misapplied . Our ministers

    ( for to this body of Dissenters 1 belong ) , are all , Presbyters , as distinguished from bishops ; that is , they are all of them equal , none of them claiming any authority or pre-eminence over another ; and though Sy-? nods or General Assemblies have

    fallen into disuse amongst us , and we are thus assimilated in some degree to the principles of the Independents , with regard to church-government this does not seem to be a sufficient reason for abandoning the old name , which , as Anti-episcopalians , is still applicable to us . It is a name by

    which our predecessors are knovtfu in history , and under which we oarselves are recognised by the supreme authority of the country . No Dissenter is ignorant that the ministers of the Three Denominations , ( Presbyterians , Independents and Baptists , ) in and about London , have access to

    the Royal Closet . And though this privilege has been chiefly used for the purpose of presenting complimentary addresses , it might , if occasion were to arise , be employed to address the Sovereign on matters relating to the interests of the general body . It is , therefore , a privilege of some valsie

    which would be lost by the proposed change * The officers of the hou » e ~ hold would know nothing of Units ^ rians , and would refuse to admit them into the Royal presence . Moreover * though there are now , perhaps , tew or none of the denomination usuall y called Presbyterian , ttoat are believers *

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    504 Manchester Preshyterians *

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    Sir , July 15 , 1818 . KNOW not on what grounds I Mr . Johns should be expected , by your Liverpool Correspondent , [ p . 380 , ] to explain why the Presbyterian ministers in Manchester and its neighbourhood , prefer that title to the new

    designation of Unitarian , which it appears he would wish to impose mpbn them . That gentleman , if he thinks proper , can , I dare say , give good reasons for the preference : but , stirelV , the adherence of himself and

    his neighbouring brethren in the ministry , to the name by which they have always been known , is a matter that require ? no explanation or apology ; and th « insinuation , p . £$ 4 , ( originating probably with the same

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1818, page 504, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2479/page/32/